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In the panorama of the visual arts in Trinidad city, the work of Alejandro López Bastida features a unique combination of traditional techniques and an absolutely contemporary language. Graduated from the National School of Art, he represents a generation that made its way into the so-called special period.
After graduating, he began working as a professor of sculpture in his hometown, Trinidad. There, he rediscovered the centenary pottery tradition, still alive in the town, and decided to incorporate it into the syllabus of the institution where he was working at the time. This heritage is evident in the work of this muralist.
In his drawings on canvas, the masses, spaces and lines construct a discourse on the human body and its ability to produce complex meanings. His works address once and again universal questions of human identity, time, ecology and sexuality, while penetrating our own history and future as Cubans.
In the city of Cienfuegos, in an exhibition, which brought together almost all of his generation from the National School of Arts, this artist exhibited a work, and then turned it into a series, which employed large boards in black resembling school boards. The audience was prompted to draw their own ideas on these boards, and the final result was exposed as a finished piece of art. Ever since, active engagement of the audience in conforming art works has become a permanent feature of his creative projects.
It is still remembered a photographic exhibition displaying the use of a piece of rusty iron from an old pier as if it were external fixation of bone surgery. Then he placed a huge broken bone, made with recycled materials. The work was a reminder of how fragile and transient the human existence is.
With an impressive background and in the midst of a great moment in his career, Alejandro Lopez is emerging as one of the key values of contemporary art on the island.